Kuwait Ban on DSLRs

Ironically, Kuwait has been running ads in the Economist and elsewhere touting their openness and modernism.

Without seeing the actual order, we don't know if it calls out DSLR's or just large, professional looking cameras. I think, though, that is is a safe bet that Kuwaitis don't mind, too much, being photographed by people they know with cell phones and little cameras, but take exception at a stranger with what looks to them like a pro camera. Why? Because they assume the guy with the big camera is going to publish, while the guy with the phone or the small camera isn't. They are not alone in that assumption, as bogus as it may be.

How much you wanna bet some guy with a big Nikon or Canon and a long lens really annoyed the wrong person, who made the rounds of the ministries?
 
wgerrard said:
Ironically, Kuwait has been running ads in the Economist and elsewhere touting their openness and modernism.

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How much you wanna bet some guy with a big Nikon or Canon and a long lens really annoyed the wrong person, who made the rounds of the ministries?
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Aren't "openness" and "modernism" relative?

Still, I think I'll go to Florida or Texas if I want a winter beach vacation.
 
Another case of governmental market intervention in a blatant ploy to shore up their indigenous RF film camera industry. Protectionism can backfire. The bailout comes next -- remember you read it here first.
 
As always, is this a credible source of information? Or just one idiot with a computer passing along misinformation obtained from another idiot with a computer (like the many "rumors"sites)?
 
ZeissFan said:
As always, is this a credible source of information? Or just one idiot with a computer passing along misinformation obtained from another idiot with a computer (like the many "rumors"sites)?
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Calling someone an idiot is frowned upon on this site although it does sound like rumor-mongering.
 
Time to ban them here. Switch everyone over to film-based rangefinders with mechanical shutters and manual focus lenses (OK, OK, we can permit a few TLR's and mechanically shuttered manual focus film SLR's). :)
 
When things "get crazy", there isn't much that any sane person can do about it.
Maybe, some politician or very rich person got caught with some woman on camera, and this became a law. Will they confiscate the cell phones with built-in cameras too?

What if a follow-up law forbids the use of the M8 and the M9?
Maybe Kuweit will be the last hope for film photography!
 
What would happen if you are carrying an F5 with a battery pack? I doubt at a distance one could tell the difference.

Perhaps the Kuwait's found out that inside every DSLR there is some coding that secretly sends...........

B2 (;->
 
I don't think there is much of a street life in Kuwait, it seems most shopping is done in indoor malls...
 
emraphoto said:
recieve press cards, place in drawer, travel on T visa.
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Exactly what I tought of first.

A lot of places with large concentrations of US troops are cracking down on journalists in the areas where they are based, due to 'terrorist surveillance' activities.
 
Ironic, isn't it. The camera technology gets better and better, and it gets easier and easier to take great shots. But at the same time, the opportunities to do so are being narrowed down, bit by bit.
 
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